I am in a vile mood! (or at least I was till a mysterious person sent me a cheery message… you know who you are, mysterious person!)

Just have to get this off my chest.

So yesterday there’s the finance team working away and thinking “Mmm it’s about lunchtime!” At this precise moment the office admin person announces that it’s time for her to go and see the flower guy, who happens to have arranged the meeting in a nearby bar. And just for the hell of it, she decides to take along the admin assistant for no particular reason. So some of the rest of the office, ravenous as the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal by this stage, have to stay at their desks in order to man the phones. The pair of them come back an hour later bragging loudly about how they have been drinking wine with flower guy.

Today, further supexitment as the office admin team leave their desks unattended for long periods. Cue me and my minion D having to answer their phones. D is already struggling with the workload and the last thing I need it her constantly getting interrupted.

This evening I decide to stay late to get some work done. The office admin person’s phone rings at 5.25. Since I shouldn’t be in the office, I take an executive decision not to answer it. It rings about 30 times, then the office admin person pops out of whatever cupboard she was hiding in, in a fury with me for not answering the phone as it turns out to be someone in the IT dept who can help with our website. This is the website that hasn’t been updated since last September. Now while I’m as eager as anybody to see the website get updated, it seems to me it could perhaps wait till tomorrow. And then Big Phil gives me a bollocking for not answering the phone. It’s tempting to ask if he’d like me to move to the office so I could provide a 24 hour phone-answering service for the admin person, but fortunately I manage to resist this.

She is really pissing me off at the moment. I hope things get better soon.